Roots:The Red Shoes. The pier's musical motifs include Oh, I
Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (also quoted by the Doctor), and The Dance
of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker. The Doctor compares his and
Ernestina's miniature predicament to Alice in Wonderland.

Continuity: The Doctor and Mike are still trapped in the basement of The
Nest. None of the stuffed animals sleep, due to them being animated cadavers.
Night is when they are most active.

Mrs Wibbsey was found by the Doctor in her role as curator to the Museum of
Curios, which includes among its collection a mediaeval weather prediction
device which utilised leeches (the Doctor is quite taken with this) and the
ballet shoes and feet of the aerialist Francesca.

Ernestina Stott is the elderly grandmother of Percy Noggins

The Hornets can reduce the size of their victims through vibrations of their
subject's atoms, possibly in a similar manner to the Master's former tissue
compression eliminator. In any case, the Doctor perfects a means to reverse the
effects with his sonic screwdriver.

The TARDIS is stationed near an amusement arcade on Cromer's entertainment pier.

Untelevised Adventures: The Doctor speaks of Tchaikovsky's company as being quite agreeable.

The Bottom Line: "I don't believe in magic - and neither do you, as a man of the cloth"

A decent follow-up, despite it being another one-person narrative (with even
less Mike Yates). Tom Baker's performance however seems livelier in this one,
and there's more 'action' than re-telling in general, with some very creepy
descriptions of the dolls house scenes. The Doctor's drooling over Ernestina's
feet on the other hand is almost as deliciously icky.